Question

Many people don't understand that most employment in America is "at will", which means you can quit whenever you want and you can get fired whenever your employer wants, for good reason, bad reason, or no reason (but not for discriminatory or other illegal reasons). Let's talk about whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. In many other countries, especially in Europe, the law protects a person from being fired for no reason. Should we have that kind of law here? Do employers have too much power? Should the law require employers to have "good cause" before they fire an employee? What if you're the employer? Should you be required to keep employees even if you don't want them? Don't need them? Don't like them?

Answer 1

Employers run a company and they need to do what is best for the company . They need to take decisions which are beneficial for the company and in that course of action they might need to take off some employees. However employer must give prior notice to employees when they want to terminate them with the actual reason and explanation. They need not retain employees when they don't want them or don't like them but prior information is very necessary for the employees to search for other job and they should have a law that requires employers to give lead time . So either the cause is a good one or a bad one or no cause employers must follow the lead time and give time for employees and laws must be brought in for this.